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bedrip en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

From be- (“on, about, all over”) + drip.

Meanings

(intransitive) To drip about or all over; drip onto (something).
- Wine shall break in sparkles o'er our lips bedripping; We are wise, and know we're by it gladden'd! 1851, Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, translated by Richard Waddington, The morning-land:
- "And bold Aneurim, all bedripped with gore Bursting by force from the beleaguered glen, Arrogant, haughty, fierce, of fiery mood, Not meek and mean, as Gray misunderstood. […]" 1825, Thomas Gray, The works of Thomas Gray:
- And when the grewsome work was finished, she thought it not ill to walk slowly to her palace through the open streets in her blood bedripped garments, that Ahab's subjects might perceive Jezebel took horrible vengeance on those who […] 1919, Florence Willingham Pickard, Between scarlet thrones:
- But in that dark camp was a dauntless Emir, A levin of battle, they call'd him Zobir, In irefullest mood, His rattling spurs all bedripping with blood, He sped to his leader, and cried, "Thou essayest, Abdallah, the battle no more! […] " 1862, Poems from the German

Forms

Spelling	Features	Source
bedripping	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bedrips	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
bedripped	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bedripped	Tense=Past	lexicographic

bedrip en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English bedrip, from Old English bedrīp (“compulsory service rendered to a landowner at harvest time, the reaping of corn on request”), from a compound of bed (“prayer, supplication, religious ordinance, service”) + rīp (“reaping, harvest”). More at bead, reap.

Meanings

(UK, dialectal) A band of harvesters.
(UK, dialectal) A crowd.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
bederup		alternative	lexicographic
bedrips	Number=Plur		lexicographic
bederepe		alternative	lexicographic
bidrepe		alternative	lexicographic